Midnight Coup

This article is about the Hand Cannon. For its namesake coup d'état, see Ghaul's coup.

Midnight Coup
Production overview
Weapon type:	Hand Cannon
Min-max impact:	80 (High)
Min-max stability:	46 (Middling)
Min-max handling:	64 (Middling)
Min-max magazine:	12
Specifications
Feed system:	Bullets
Fire mode:	Semi-Automatic
Rate of fire:	150 RPM
Effective range:	37
Service history
In service:	Guardians

"The conspirators were too afraid to kill me—rightly so. I am the beloved father of the people, and the glorious mob would not suffer my death. My sentence was exile."

— In-game description

Midnight Coup is a Legendary Hand Cannon in Destiny 2. It is obtained as a chance drop from The Leviathan Raid.

Lore

The conspirators came late in the night, skulking into my court while we caroused. Ghaul himself led the coup, and it was by his own Red Legion that we were arrested. Imagine my surprise to see the Consul stride into my court so puffed up with pride. He took cheap pleasure hurling spittle in my face. We were frog marched to the Leviathan under cover of darkness. There was to be no execution; Ghaul and the Consul feared the mob. They knew how tenuous their grip on power would be, and how the people adored their god-emperor. Ghaul dared not look me in the eye. What was the emotion on his face? Was it shame? How could he bear such hate for one who had been as a father to him? We were sealed inside the Leviathan and ejected into the furthest reaches of space, left to the same fate I had determined for the Consul so long ago. We were left to die.

Trivia

• The Lore for the Midnight Coup describes how Dominus Ghaul arrested Emperor Calus and exiled him.
• Unfortunately, this weapon will be sunset with the launch of Beyond Light.

List of appearances

• Destiny 2 (First appearance)